The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh announced Tuesday it is offering eligible faculty and staff a voluntary retirement buyout with a one-time payment equal to 50% of an employee's annual base salary.

UW-Oshkosh becomes the third campus within the UW System to offer buyouts in an effort to reduce its workforce in the face of state budget cuts. UW-Eau Claire was the first, followed last week by UW-Superior.

UW-Oshkosh expects about 100 employees would be eligible. It has set a goal of reducing its workforce by 80 within the next three years.(115)

Jean Segura just keeps impressing

The Milwaukee Brewers' young shortstop continues to tear the cover off the baseball, as he homered, tripled and singled in a 10-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night at Miller Park.

In a game in which the Brewers hit a season-high five home runs, Segura's was the most impressive -- a 432-foot shot to straightaway center field in the first inning off Wandy Rodriguez that gave Milwaukee a 2-1 lead.

Segura just missed the first multi-homer game of his career in the sixth inning, tripling off the wall in right before finishing up with an eighth-inning single.

It was Segura's 11th multi-hit game on the season and fifth career three-hit game. He's now hitting a cool .364 entering play Tuesday.

"I just feel great," Segura said. "I just go out there and try to not do too much. Just play my game, relax and have fun. That's what I've been doing all season."

Manager Ron Roenicke is understandably loving what he's seeing out of Segura this season.

"He's hitting everything," he said. "He's hitting off-speed pitches, he's hitting good fastballs. He'll be up there in a count where they'll be making tough pitches, and he's fouling off 5-6 pitches.

"He's really playing well."

One other interesting tidbit coming out of Monday's win was Jonathan Lucroy playing the ninth inning at first base. He flip-flopped with Martin Maldonado, who moved from first to behind the plate.

It's something that Roenicke said has been in the works for a while.

"He’s been working at it quite a bit,” Roenicke said. “We’ve been looking for a spot to get him into, to be able to play him an inning or two. Say if we like ‘Maldy’ matched up with (Wily) Peralta, and we’ve got a left-hander going that day, it’d be nice to have ‘Luc’ in the lineup.

“If he can play first base once in a while, I think that would be really helpful for us."

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